Economic infrastructure as factor of the regions competitiveness

The paper presents results of an evaluation on Polish regions' spatially-diversified competitiveness, and their associated economic infrastructure. On this base, an interdependence between the regions' competitiveness and their infrastructure development was analyzed. For the analyis, taxonomical measures were used, calculated by the Z. Hellwig method, based on diagnostic variables, and depicting various aspects of the competitiveness and state of the economic infrastructure of each region. (original abstract)